Stuff happens. Jiang Yu's being stupid but his stupidity cannot beat Cai Hong's.
♦ ♦ ♦ Episode 7 ♦ ♦ ♦
At the factory, Cai Hong returns the vest to Jiang Yu noting
that if he finds it dirty still, he could just discard it immediately. She’s
this cold because she believes he was involved in the disappearance of Lao Cai
and his family.
I breathe a little sigh of relief that Fei Fei gives Lao
Cai’s mistress’s address to Jiang Yu instead of ripping it to shreds. He leaves everything behind to find the Mistress but first he drags Cai Hong along with him. He's determined to
prove his innocence to the girl he loves. However, when they arrive there,
they’re once again one step too late: the mistress is murdered. Cai Hong jumps
the gun and automatically assumes Jiang Yu’s the criminal and he brought
her here to witness his innocence. I’m
amazed at this logic. You ARE his witness, Cai Hong ah! Thus Jiang Yu’s
got another crime added to his yet to be determined criminal record.
He’s trying to rationalize this murder to her: first, there
are two cups on the table; second, the windows weren’t broken; lastly, there
are no signs of a brawl. In other words, the murderer was someone the mistress
was familiar with and that could not be Jiang Yu. These logical deductions
don’t seem to form a coherent train of thought in Cai Hong’s head as she
continues to accuse him. Then Shao Tian joins the party and is “surprised” the
mistress has died. Jiang Yu is suspicious of why he’s here but Shao Tian
doesn’t explain it to him directly. He actually found out the address from Fei Fei a while ago.
Hm.
When Jiang Yu gets home, he’s frustrated at all these dead ends.
Fei Fei doesn’t understand his obsession with this matter but he explains this
culprit could be a threat to them too. Don’t ask why. I’m having a little trouble wrapping my head around the
nonexistent logical explanation but maybe that’s part of the plot because there
really is no logical explanation; he just wants to clear his name and redeem
some points from Cai Hong.
Meanwhile, real forensics is still going on for Wu Hong Da’s
death. The chief reveals to Cai Hong and Shao Tian that metal residues were
found in Wu Hong Da’s injury and this metal residue, is special: it comes from
special pens. Bingo. Cai Hong jumps the gun again.
She tells the two men that Jiang Yu has this exact pen. The problem is Jiang Yu has
a strong alibi thus the chief can’t bring him in for an interview without solid
evidence.
So what actually happened to the mistress: she was killed by
Lao Cai. Wow. Previously, when Shao Tian had found out from Fei Fei that Jiang Yu and Cai Hong were on their way to visit the Mistress, Shao Tian had notified Lao Cai. Lao Cai went there first and tried to bribe
her with some money. However, the mistress demanded more. He got so frustrated,
he killed her. Now Lao Cai and his wife are begging Shao Tian to help them
escape. Shao Tian was angry at Lao Cai for resorting to murder (adding yet
another crime to his embezzlement) but he pitied his family so he agrees to
help.
Cai Hong pays a visit to Shao Tian’s mom (Zhou Mama). Zhou
Mama wants to see her as her own daughter (i.e. daughter in law) but Cai Hong
plays it dumb and agrees to that idea but without the intention of marrying Shao Tian. Zhou Mama
doesn’t pick up on this though. When Cai Hong’s about to leave the hospital,
she bumps into Jiang Yu’s Mom (Jiang Mama). The two share a friendly
conversation and they find out they both like the same candy. Jiang Mama seems
to really like Cai Hong. I get the feeling she’s viewing Cai Hong as a hopeful
daughter-in-law too. Jiang Mama complains that she “forgot” her reading glasses
at home and kindly asks Cai Hong to fetch them for her but I’d say she’s trying
to create coincidences for Cai Hong to chance upon Jiang Yu. I thought Jiang Mama was
supporting Fei Fei?
Cai Hong obeys Mom’s request and heads straight to Jiang
Yu’s huuuuge house. Turns out she’s got another agenda for going to his place.
When the servants aren’t looking, she sneaks into Jiang Yu’s room and steals
the special pen. However, her thievery experience isn’t that successful: she
bumps into Jiang Yu as she heads out. Clearly, Jiang Yu knows something’s up but
he doesn’t corner her and lets her escape. (She doesn’t even bother taking
Mom’s reading glasses she was originally here for.) It’s only later he found
out she stole his pen but the reason remains unknown to him – that is, until he gets
arrested. And since this era so advanced (you know with the forensics and
everything), Jiang Yu tells Fei Fei to call for his lawyer.
At the police station, Cai Hong (and Shao Tian) are accusing
Jiang Yu of being the murderer and this time they’ve got proof: the
pen! Through some sort of analysis, Jiang Yu’s pen has the same metal residue found in
Wu Hong Da’s body. I don’t know why Jiang Yu needs a lawyer because he
pinpoints all the plot holes fine on his own: firstly, this pen has no evidence
of being damaged; secondly, there is no proof that he bought the pen before Wu
Hong Da’s death; lastly, there’s no proof this pen even belongs to him.
Everything sounds logical but we know the last two are true. Jiang Yu does
admit to the last point though but that's because he has an ulterior reason: he wants to
catch the thief who stole his pen (i.e. Cai Hong). Without
any sort of sufficient proof, Jiang Yu is free to leave.
The next day, Cai Hong arrives at work like nothing happened.
I applaud her of her
bravery. Everyone’s pointing fingers at her because the whole factory
knows she got their boss arrested yesterday. Fei Fei is especially mean to her but
Cai Hong is insistent on returning to work. A phone call comes in and Cai Hong
is the first to answer it. It’s Jiang Yu and he needs someone to send documents
to him. When he finds out Cai Hong is on the receiver end he gives her a final
trial that will determine whether she can stay at Ling Long: she must find him
and the only hint for her is that he’s under a blooming tree.
And so the search for a blooming tree begins. Poor girl ran all over the place.When she finally finds the right one, it’s already nighttime. And
Jiang Yu’s still there, patiently waiting for her.
Cai Hong: You
wanted me to find a blooming tree so no matter where I have to find this tree,
as long it’s your words, all that work I did isn't anything. It’s a sarcastic remark at Jiang Yu for making
her do all this work but she’ll do it (like a dog) anyways just because she can'y disobey his words.
Jiang Yu asks
her: In your eyes, I must be very spiteful.
Cai Hong: Think
whatever you want (i.e. yes,
you are very spiteful).
They continue to stare at each other until they get
interrupted by Shao Tian who was worried for Cai Hong. Taking this as his cue
to leave, Jiang Yu tells Cai Hong to come work tomorrow at 8am. Yay?
The
scenery is pretty and all but I’m not feeling much here because I feel like I’m
getting a cheap compensation for having watched a very boring and dumb episode.
8am tomorrow: she’s there at work. However, someone’s
clearly not happy. Fei Fei tells her to stop working immediately and fires her
on the spot. Luckily Jiang Yu’s right behind her witnessing the entire scene.
♦ ♦ ♦ Episode 8 ♦ ♦ ♦
Fei Fei’s attempt at firing Cai Hong is futile. To appease
Fei Fei though, Jiang Yu assures her he has his plans in keeping Cai Hong close
to him. There really is no
plan, I swear! He just loves her.
Meanwhile Cai Hong visits Grandpa Fu. She apologizes for not
coming sooner to check on his family’s condition (you see, Grandpa Fu is the
only breadwinner of the family) but instead Grandpa Fu is grateful to her. She
learns that someone from Ling Long had hired Grandpa Fu’s mentally disabled son,
Dan Ke (= Eggshell). My hypothesis for why Dan Ke is mentally disabled: when he was an embryo he knew that he was going to be named Eggshell
and that had mentally scarred him hence impairing his cognitive development. Seriously,
who calls their son Eggshell? Initially Cai Hong speculated this altruistic
act to be of Shao Tian’s, but nope, it’s Jiang Yu. She even spots him
personally teaching Dan Ke but in that process, he also gets himself injured. When Cai Hong sees Jiang Yu injured, she does jerk a little. Someone’s worried.
I was a little surprised that the show made him this nice all of a sudden but this character of his was already established back in Episode 1 when he gave money to the young Shao Tian when his family wasn’t faring any better.
Later that day, she thanks Jiang Yu for his kindness but he
tauntingly reminds her that she may regret it. She agrees and is about to leave
with a huff and a puff.
Jiang Yu, why’d you ruin the mood? Before she leaves though, she places
a bottle of medicine for Jiang Yu on the table with a thud. Jiang Yu was warmed
by her gesture as he picks up the bottle but, forcing himself to remember his
father’s death, he too puts the medicine back on the table with another thud.
Stepmom’s on a grocery trip and happens to see the newspaper
headline for today: Cai Hong is out to seduce Jiang Yu. Stepmom is delighted. That
night, Stepmom pesters (and pesters) Cai Hong that Jiang Yu is a great catch.
Annoyed, Cai Hong slips up and accuses her Stepmom of marrying her dad for
money. That gives Cai Hong a deserving slap on the face from Stepmom. With
that, Cai Hong runs off. Listening to all this was Shao Tian (who happened to
pass by in the middle of the night). Shao Tian may not be happy his love got
slapped in the face but he is grateful to Stepmom for one thing: reminding him
that a man’s gotta have money if he wants the girl he loves. Ummm… if you want a girl that
loves you, you would hope that she’s there not there for your money…
The next day Shao Tian resigns from Ling Long. By nighttime,
Shao Tian takes Cai Hong on an excursion. Well, not really. He makes her walk a
few steps with her eyes closed to an unknown destination: it’s his new store:
Fu Sheng. He tells her that this store not only belongs to him, but also her.
Basically, whatever is his is hers. This show is making me like Shao Tian a bit too much, especially when
he smiles like that. Shao Tian wants Cai Hong to resign from Ling Long
too but the girl is set on her revenge plan (that hasn’t moved an inch since
Day 1).
Cai Hong takes a leave in the afternoon of the next day to attend
Fu Sheng’s opening. Originally, Jiang Yu approves of the leave but when he
learns her reason he’s stubborn on not letting her go, unless she attends the
opening with him (since he got an invitation to go anyways). Don’t be too happy
though because Jiang Yu gets inexplicably mad from Shao Tian’s comment about
not letting go of Cai Hong leave.
I thought it was Cai Hong that wouldn’t give up of Jiang Yu. Jiang Yu relinquishes his fury by driving his race car carriage recklessly
with Cai Hong as his passenger. Cai Hong does a dangerous stunt: she jumps off
the carriage. Jiang Yu chases her and grabs her into a forceful embrace. With much
struggle she pushes him away and ends his rage with a slap across his face. Before
Cai Hong runs off, she yells: “I
never want to see you again.” She means it. The next day, she resigns. Meanwhile
Jiang Yu’s regretting everything.
One more thing to note in this scene: before Jiang Yu left
the opening party at Fu Sheng, Zhou Mama realizes that Jiang Yu is that Jiang Yu (her gracious boss’s son).
When Cai Hong reports for work at Fu Sheng the following day, she
finds Ah Li working there. Shao Tian’s a smart cookie and plays it naturally:
he introduces Ah Li as his distant relative oh so casually pretending to not
know a thing about Ah Li and Cai Hong’s previous encounter. Gullible Cai Hong
doesn’t suspect a thing.
At Jiang Yu’s end he can’t work well or sleep well without seeing
Cai Hong. He does have a new secretary but she’s lacking in skills compared to
Cai Hong (in terms of brewing tea and note-taking speed). However, the major
problem with the secretary is that she’s not Cai Hong. That night, he tosses
and turns and finally gets up with a sudden urge to see Mr. Cat. Too bad he can't find him. What ever happened to returning
him?
While Jiang yu struggling alone, Shao Tian is successfully
wooing Cai Hong. Or so he thinks. He braids her a rainbow (=Cai Hong) bracelet and
confesses to her once again. Despite Cai Hong accepting his confession, she’s
not that elated. Actually, she’s not elated at all. However, Shao Tian’s already on cloud
nine, too high up to pick up on reality. He also plans for their marriage on the spot
to which Cai Hong cautions him that maybe they should take things slowly. He’s
like, How can I take things slowly when I’ve already waited for years? With that,
he moves in for a kiss. :O
However the kiss doesn’t happen because some petty guy that’s
spying on the them shouts: “Wu Cai Hong!” This petty guy is Jiang Yu.
♦ ♦ ♦ Comments ♦ ♦ ♦
Alright, so these two episodes were a little bit boring and
dumb.
- #1 Dumb Thing: I don’t even know why the chief proceeded to arrest Jiang Yu without knowing the pen wasn’t damaged…
- #2 Dumb Thing: What’s with the carriage scene? That was so random. He got mad out of nowhere. I think he should have went berserk (or completely turned off) when Cai Hong did some amazing plot twist to accuse him of murdering Lao Cai’s mistress.
- #3 Dumb Thing: The logic behind Jiang Yu keeping Cai Hong is that there is no logic. Drama, can you not make Fei Fei question Jiang Yu for his logic over and over again? If that's your way of telling me Jiang Yu luurves Cai Hong, I get it already.
- #4 Dumb Thing(s): STOP EAVESDROPPING. This is probably my number one most hated plot device. The drama makes Fei Fei abuse it so much and Shao Tian is a close runner-up.
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